Re-experiencing one's own life. Should one wish for that? Christoph meets in Stockholm with the much younger Lena. He tells her that he loved a woman twenty years ago who was similar to her. He knows the life she leads and understands what lies ahead for her. Thus begins an unprecedentedly truthful game of the past with the present, from which no one will emerge unscathed. Can we escape our fate, or must we resign ourselves to the gentle indifference of the world? Peter Stamm, the great storyteller of existential human experience, narrates in a confined space another story of the inexplicable closeness that separates one from who they once were.